On the lookout for Karner blue - plenty of blooming lupines, but the only blues I came across were two eastern tailed blues.

Default, no - it will always default to your present county. It's easy enough to zoom to whatever level you like once you are on that tab.

I basically keep a second list of "dubious" life birds - on there I have brief glimpses, head onlys, and IDs which I grew doubtful of after the fact. I've got over 500 lifers and about 20 that I'd call "dubious"

Harper's Ferry - it's about halfway, and maximally pleasant.

I watched this for the first time this year. It feels like this movie has been forgotten to history, at most only known as the 'inspiration' for Inner Space. I was expecting a corny sci-fi B movie. But no, this really blew me away! The characters are not so great, the plot is predictable - but the voyage really is fantastic. The spectacle and adventure still impress all this time later.

Become a birdwatcher, be blown away by all the species in upstate. For non birders, the best spot is Bloomingdale bog north of Saranac Lake. Head south on the trail from Bloomingdale Gabriels Road and you'll come across the Canada jays - it's one of the few places you can find them in NYS and they'll come very close to you. Extraordinary experience. The chickadees and nuthatches on that stretch are also so friendly they are likely to land on your head if you pause.

Needs banana, I have no idea how to perceive these images.

So, seems no one has said yet, but the common names for those species are purple finch and house finch, not "purple house finch/common house finch". Together with Cassin's finch, they are collectively known as the American rosefinches.

I did US 20 from Boston to Oregon, and then took interstate 90 from Seattle all the way back a couple years ago. I didn't take it slow at all on 90, I drove as far as I could each day and it took 5 days, you will not have much time to spare if you want to be properly rested and avoid night driving. I'll assume you are moving or something and aren't willing/able to take extra time. Probably dedicate what time you have to Badlands, Black Hills, and Devil's Tower.

My itinerary was like this (opposite direction from your trip, of course):

Westport, WA through Seattle to Butte, MT

Butte, MA to Wall, SD with time spent at Devil's Tower

Wall, SD to Wisconsin Dells, WI with time spent at Badlands NP

W. Dells, WI to Ashtabula, OH, shortest driving day but was still over 9 hours

Ashtabula, OH to Boston, MA

Has anyone else been seeing drastically less of these guys than usual? I feel like a couple years ago they were omnipresent, but I've hardly seen any this year - looking at the local reports, there aren't a lot of other people seeing them in the region either.

I'm still confused about what exactly you are asking. The clades that exist within families are subfamilies, tribe, genus, subgenus - there may be more.

As a delivery guy living on tips, I can agree to that. It's not exactly worth my while to get 20% when the order is only $18.

Ishtar (1987) - "Go to the camel market in Shali Benimal. Ask for Mohammed, tell him you want to buy a blind camel."

Hm, can you share the checklist that has the bittern on it?

Maggie Mae Fish has an excellent video on Eastwood and the trajectory of his career.

She puts forth a theory that he was so disturbed by Paint Your Wagon (1969), in which he portrayed a gold prospector in a (possibly bisexual) polyamorous relationship, that he went overboard trying to stick strictly to a hyper masculine image going forward. It completely defined every performance from then on, and was likely what pushed him to start directing in the first place.

I'm happy to report we had very good views in Albany, I've heard it was too cloudy towards Utica

Ok so what is the clade(s) that are included in placentalia but excluded from boreoeutheria?

Bustards make me feel good!

Ok I felt like the eagles were distractingly bad... To me they felt very cartoonish, while the apes looked stellar in almost every shot. I had to look up what golden eagles actually looked like because I was starting to think maybe they just look like cartoons in real life. But no, they don't. Kind of fumbled what would otherwise be a really impressive technical showcase of a film.

Wow I didn't know that Blues Brothers 2000 was a theatrical release, that's embarrassing

Put in an application at Pepper Jacks

I definitely have had starling whistles and even alarm calls from robins show up as cedar waxwings on Merlin. Usually they are conspicuously perched in groups high up in trees. If the trees around you aren't too tall, they don't take much effort to spot. Probably a misidentification if you are having trouble finding any.

Is this a joke comment or are you genuinely asking? They don't care about their own extinction, neither animals nor other organisms think or care about what happens at the population level. The reason why extant organisms strive to survive and reproduce is because the organisms which lacked that drive died out. If you are still having trouble understanding, try asking your question in a different way, what, more specifically, aren't you understanding?

Yeah small claims court is not going to be expensive. That's your path